Join Video Bazaar in the hypnotic, fever-dream world of Arrebato, a mind-bending journey through obsession. A rarely screened hidden gem of Spanish horror and an underground masterpiece, Iván Zulueta’s Arrebato is a film unlike any other, blurring the lines between addiction, creativity, and the eerie power of the moving image.
Follow a struggling horror filmmaker as he’s drawn into a surreal descent, haunted by a mysterious artist whose experiments with film reel him into a vortex of time, perception, and something far more sinister. Blending psychological horror, surrealism, and meta-cinema, Arrebato tells the story of José, a struggling horror filmmaker drowning in drugs and creative stagnation. His life is upended when he reconnects a reclusive experimental filmmaker obsessed with capturing a mysterious 'rapture' on film - an unexplained phenomenon that causes those who experience it to disappear entirely, consumed by the cinematic medium itself.
Praised as Spain’s answer to Eraserhead and an uncanny precursor to films such as Kyoshi Kurosawa’s Pulse and David Lynch’s Lost Highway, few films capture the hypnotic power of cinema quite like Arrebato. The magnum opus of Iván Zulueta, a visionary but elusive figure in Spanish film history, this is more than just a horror film, it's an intoxicating descent into addiction, artistic obsession, and the eerie nature of the moving image itself.
Revered by directors like Pedro Almodóvar, Iván Zulueta’s masterpiece has grown into near-mythic status over the decades. Seize this rare opportunity to experience it as it was meant to be seen, immersed in the dark embrace of the cinema.
This screening is presented by the cult film collective, Video Bazaar, who are proud to show this rarely screened film, and are dedicated to bringing the weird and the obscure to London audiences at The Garden Cinema. Please note that this film will feature an introduction and carefully curated pre show material.
